At present, the huge shift of people’s economic concept and financial management mode propels the vigorous development of financial media. Financial news, as a special style under the news genre, is a report with regard to the latest facts and situations of economic decisions, economic activities, and economic phenomena. Undoubtedly, the quality of its translation directly influences the international communication for information, language and cultural exchange. In order to help translators obtain financial information more effectively and accurately, this article introduces the linguistic features of English financial news, which is beneficial to translate them reasonably. In addition, this article selects English news and corresponding Chinese translation texts from domestic authoritative bilingual news websites, analyzes the translation texts of English financial news under the guidance of functional translation theory. Afterwards, this article puts forward some translation strategies of English financial news from the perspective of functional translation theory, and explores the instructing role of functional translation theory in news translation at the same time. This article aims at proving the rationality and practicability of this theory, and establishing a sort of audience-oriented translation view focusing on the effect of news communication, which can provide some thoughts for the future of financial news translation practice.